The Malay Archipelago
$43.54
- Paperback
736 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2014
Summary
‘I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head’
Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest – both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years’ travel across the entire Malay world – from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea – and as the record of a great mind. As Wallace, often under conditions of terrible hardship and sickness, batt…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141394404 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141394404 |
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace, Dr Andrew Berry |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 736 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2014 |
| Weight: | 493g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 127mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Pocket Penguins |
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About The Author
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was one of the most important and likeable British scientists of the 19th century. A field researcher of genius, he spent many years in Brazil and southeast Asia, identifying many new species and, independently of Darwin, developing - in parallel to Darwin - the theory of evolution through natural selection. He effectively created the whole field of ‘bio-geography’, with the great split between Eurasian and Australasian flora and fauna, which runs through the Malay archipelago, now named the Wallace Line. His research on warning colouration and speciation continues to shape modern research.
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